Fanworks

Related Websites

English

• Serial Experiments Lain: Root (article) has a collection of Lain media for download, including cover scans and soundtracks.
• Thought Experiments Lain (article) is owned by Lawrence Eng aka Lawmune. It includes, among other things, a review, fanart contest and glossary. It is perhaps best known for the list of Apple references in Lain.
• Omnipresence is full of information about SEL and includes episode transcripts, screencaps, a fanlisting and a very outdated list of links. It is impossible to navigate. Content is here.
• Mebious.co.uk (article) comes from a URL that appears briefly on a pressure gauge. Sometimes called "Mebi" or "Mebby". Allows anonymous text or image posting. The most recent 10 lines of text are displayed.
• Mebious.mobi (article), sometimes called "Mobi", is inspired by Mebious and notably includes features such as music upload and auto-refresh.
• Mebious.com hosts this very wiki.
• asphyxia.su Collection of every background image from mebious, going back over a year.

Japanese

• Serial Experiments Lain, a site by Chiaki J. Konaka, has interviews, information about books, and links related to Lain, as well as a font that was used in the anime.
• Deep Researches Lain has a glossary of terms from the anime and a quiz game.
• A BBS thread about Serial Experiments Lain.
• Grifon's Garden has pictures and descriptions of at least 6 homemade Lain figurines.

Russian

• Old Home, an image board that is is primarily for discussions related to ABe.
• lain game contains files from the Serial Experiments Lain PSX game, extracted using jPSXdec.

Past Related Websites

English

• Thewired.info
• Lain - Alive in Cyberspace included reviews, screencaps, poetry, and a rather intriguing dialogue on Lain. (Site has been disabled).
• cerealexperiments.com Website that used to have an imageboard that was sometimes Lain-related.
• Wakachan's ABe board, R.I.P.

Essays

English

• VKK 320: Decoding Virtual Culture in the Media - a case-study of Serial Experiments Lain
• Serial Experiments: Lain as a Reflection of Modern Japanese Anxieties in the Digital Era
• The role of technology in modern society according to Serial Experiments: Lain
• The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation
• The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: Questioning the Post-Christian Bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George
• Give some examples of cybernetic systems at play in specific visual texts. What metaphors of the body in contemporary society do they suggest? And to what commodity end are they marketed?
• To what commodity end are concepts of the ‘post-human’ and the ‘cyborg’ marketed? Give screen and theoretical examples of each.
• The Real Verses the Virtual [sic]

Other articles

English

• All I Ever Needed To Know In This Fragile Layer Of Existence We Call The Real World I Learned From Serial Experiments Lain

Games

• Lain visual novel project, a project to create a Serial Experiments Lain visual novel, started on mebious.co.uk and worked on here.

Analysis

• Youtube video Analyzing exactly what happened in the anime.

Fanfiction Recommendations

English

• Stopped, a short story that concisely captures the essence of Serial Experiments Lain.

"Lain's watch stopped..."

• The Gods Themselves, an odd crossover between SEL and Puella Magi Madoka Magica in which Lain and Madokami are indistinguishable and Alice discusses God with Homura.

""Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.*" Lain. Madoka. Homura. Arisu. I am uncertain what genre to classify this under." (*Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.)